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• Absorption Length
• Acceptance
• Aerogel Detectors
• Albedo
• Attenuation
• Barn
• Beta Ray
• Bethe-Bloch Formula
• BGO
• Bhabha Scattering
• Birks' Law
• Bjorken x
• Breit Frame
• Breit-Wigner Distribution
• Bremsstrahlung
• Bubble Chamber
• Bulk
• Calorimeter
• Cathode Strips
• CCD
• Centre-of-Mass Transformation
• Charge-Coupled Device
• Charge Division
• Cherenkov Counter
• Cherenkov Radiation
• Circularity
• Cladding
• Cloud Chamber
• Collision Length
• Compensating Calorimeter
• Compton Scattering
• Conversion Length
• Coulomb Scattering
• Counter Efficiency
• Cross-Section
• Crystal Calorimeter
• Dalitz Pair
• Dalitz Plot
• Dark Current
• Dead Time
• Deep Inelastic Scattering Variables
• Delta Ray
• Detection Efficiency
• Diffusion Chamber
• Diffusion in Gases
• DISC
• Doping
• Drift Angle
• Drift Chamber
• Drift Tube
• Drift Velocity
• Dynamic Range
• Dynode
• Effective Mass
• Electromagnetic Calorimeter
• Electromagnetic Interactions
• Electromagnetic Shower
• Electron Avalanche
• Electron Volt
• Energy Flow
• Energy Loss
• Energy Resolution in Calorimeters
• Equations of Motion
• Errors in Track Reconstruction
• Exclusive Measurement of Interactions
• Fermi Plateau
• Feynman Diagram
• Feynman x
• Field Shaping
• Field Wire
• Four-momenta
• Fragmentation Function
• Fragmentation Region
• Gaseous Detectors, Operational Modes
• Gas Mixtures in Gaseous Detectorss
• Gas Multiplication
• Geiger Mode
• Hadron Calorimeter
• Hadronic Shower
• Hadronization
• Half Life
• Hermeticity
• Hodoscope
• Inclusive Measurement of Interactions
• Interaction Length
• Invariant Cross-Section
• Ionization Chamber
• Ionization Sampling
• Jet Chamber
• Jet Variables
• K-factor
• Knock-on Electron
• KNO-Distribution
• Landau Distribution
• Leakage
• Leakage Current
• Light Attenuation
• Light Guide
• Light Yield
• Limited Streamer Tube
• Lorentz Angle
• Lorentz Distribution
• Lorentz Force
• Lorentz Transformation
• Luminosity
• Mandelstam Variables
• Maxwell's Equations
• Mean Free Path
• Microstrip Detector
• Microstrip Gas Chamber
• Minimum Ionization
• Missing Mass
• Moliere's Formula
• Moliere Radius
• Möller Scattering
• Momentum Flow
• Momentum Kick
• MSGC
• Multiple Scattering
• Multiwire Chamber
• MWPC
• Neutron Fluence
• NIEL Scaling
• Noise
• Nuclear Emulsion
• Occupancy
• Optical Theorem
• Outlier
• Pad
• Pair Production
• Partial Wave Analysis
• Partial Width
• Particle Identification
• Peyrou Plot
• Photodiodes
• Photoelectric Effect
• Photomultiplier
• Pileup
• Pitch
• Pixel Detector
• Planarity
• PM
• Proportional Counter, Proportional Mode
• Proportional Tube
• Pseudorapidity
• Punchthrough
• Quadrupole Magnet
• Racetrack
• Radiation Damage in Gaseous Detectors
• Radiation Damage in Plastic Scintillators
• Radiation Damage in Semiconductors
• Radiation Length
• Radiation Measures and Units
• Radiative Corrections
• Range
• Rapidity
• Rayleigh Scattering
• Relativistic Rise
• Resolution
• RICH
• Ring Imaging Cherenkov Counter
• Scaling Variable
• Scintillating Fibre Calorimeter
• Scintillating Fibre Tracker
• Scintillation Counter
• Semiconductor Detectors
• Sense Wire
• Shimming of Magnets
• Shower
• Silicon Drift Chamber
• Simulation of Showers
• Single Electron Peak
• Space Charge
• Spark Chamber
• Spatial Resolution
• Sphericity and Spherocity
• Stokes Shift
• Straggling
• Straw Chamber
• Streamer
• Streamer Chamber
• Streamer Tube
• Structure Function
• Synchrotron Radiation
• Thomson Scattering
• Thrust
• Time Expansion Chamber
• Time Projection Chamber
• Time Resolution
• TOF Counter
• TPC
• Trajectory of a Charged Particle
• Transition Radiation
• Trigger
• Trigger Efficiency
• Triplicity
• Two-Body Kinematics
• Two Photon Interaction Variables
• Units
• Vavilov Distribution
• Vertex Detector
• Wavelength Shifter
• Wilson Chamber
• Wire Chamber
• References
• Index
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